IT Team Simulation

Univ of Texas team demonstrates their ability to adapt to business scenarios, understand the situation, and frame up recommendations that move the client on positive path forward. These simulations are good for students and IT professionals in the workforce to refine their skills in a "test environment". A little sprinkle of competition usually makes things interesting. Consider a simulation as a bolt-on to your next IT event. Get your team up, moving around, interacting, and learning. ...

... "The team also framed recommendations from the managers’ perspective, a move that anticipated many of the executives’ questions and concerns. " ...

Via University of Texas at Dallas: IT Contests

Innovation through Adaptation

Lego adapts its product strategy with Hollywood themes and shifts the workforce culture, meeting with market success. There is a line of thought that theme-based toys will curtail the creativity of children by imposing Hollywood's definition of play. But even kids adapt their strategies. From observations of my kids and their friends, Lego sets are mashed up and integrated in new ways that their creators have not imagined. ...

... "Even toy analysts who admire the company and its recent success acknowledge a broad shift. I would like to see more open-ended play like when we were kids, says Gerrick Johnson, a toy analyst ... " ...

Via New York Times: Hollywood Tie-Ins for Lego

EVM in the Project Manager's Toolbox: Use It

Let's use project tools, such as earned value management, to assess our status, make immediate changes to adapt to the current conditions, and forecast our ability to deliver. ...

... "The outcome can then not only help identify at an early stage any issues and allow small changes to be made so that a project can be brought rapidly back on track, but will also give the capability to play the what-ifs that are necessary to make the decision as to whether a project should be stopped" ...

Via IT Director: Earned Value Management

Rails to Trails Thai Style

How flexible are your project teams? Check out this flexibility in Bangkok. ...


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